Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-01-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.


"A new post Office in Mahoning
county, o., Is merely named "Snodes. {"
Many Indians on the Cattaraugus,
n. Y, reservation are sick and needy.
"A wild duck has been caught on q
hsh-hoOk by Duchess. n. Y. angler.
"A superstitious West Chester lady
picks uD every pin she sees on the street.
A steamer en- route 20 New London
picked up sea turtle on her paddle
wheel.
Western New York saltmakers are
pooling TO advance salt. now 90 cents .
barrel.
"A st. Louis man estimates that a
Pullman sleeper nets the company $500
year
Hudson, n. Y, is building a model
school house, to be ventilated in cold
weather.
John J. Thurlow. of Thurlow, who
is % years Of age, never used a par OF
spectacles.
The Central Hudson river shop is
building locomotive boiler 50 inches
In diameter.
youngstown coal men predict
fuel famine in the West. as the lake
trade was small.
AS much as fifteen cents each is
paid for jack rabbit sealps by county
authorities ON the Pacific coast.
The greatest strawberry-shipping
point on the Continent is Norfolk, Va.
A farm OF 440 acres near that city is the
largest one in the world.
Harvard has the largest senior and
freshman classes ever known in her his
tory. The latter numbers 2I9 now, and
four or five more Will yet enter.
The LenOx property, on the east
side of what Is now Central PARK, New
L fork, is worth over s9, 600, COO. It was
bought at foreclosure sale in 1917 for
s6920.
There is q rush of gold seekers to
the country on the Straits of Magellan.
Up TO the end of August, 207I claims
had been registered in the offices estab-
lished for the purpose.
The largest bicycle ever made In
America, diameter sixty-four inches,
has been on exhibition in Hartford,
Conn. II was made to order for rider
standing 6 feet y inches high.
"A deposit of pure asphaltum, from
fifteen to twenty feet thick, has been
discovered near Thistle Station, In
Utah. 1t is worth $40 ton, and the
expense of mining is only forty cents.
Ex-senator McDonald's law prac.
tice pays him $50, 900 per year, and he
Is not losing any sleep over the senator.
la problem. There is another $50, ,0oC
situation that Uncle Joe has an eye on.
I'm 1880 there were G2j Indians 10
Maine, of whom 312 were males and 3l3
females. Every able bodied Indian IN
the State has dOg, and every Indian
lwlo Is not able-bOdied has two, says
the Lewiston Journal.
/ dwight Hall, the new Young Mems
Christian Association building at Yale
College, which has just been dedicated,
cost $50, 600, and is the most beautifully
furnished and handsomely constructed
building on the campus.
"A little girl in Burlington, VT, ha,
inherited so good a memory of an uncle
whose funeral had been attended by her
mother not long before this little girl.
birth that she could give full descrip-
tion OF him and knew his picture al
once the first time she saw il.
An unusual law question came up
at Naterville, Me-, recently. A man
owed small sum of money and an at
tachment was put on his watch-a legal
attachment. The man was shrewd and
said the time piece could not be taken,
As it was his OF whereby he earned his
livelihood. He was watchman.
"A cOlOred Alabama child two years
old, was found in the yard the other day
playing with 4 big rattlesnake, which
seemed greatly pleased to make the new
The mother regards IL
as an omen that the boy Will some day
become Governor of the State. His
father thinks that he will turn out a
saloon keeper.
For 100 years the Salem Gazette has
been issued without 4 break or the loss
OF an edition. In that time il has had
but two editors, with the exception OF
two and q quarter years, Thomas Cush.
ing and Caleb FOote. The latter is still
senior editor, hale and active after
sixty one years or service and sixty. nine
years. continuous connection with the
office.
AS returned By the census of 1889,
our population in that year YVES 50,155,-
IS3. According to the official estimate
now published, the population on the
3Jih Of last June, was IS, 420, COO, al
increase IN six years Of over eight mil.
lions and quarter, or about IL per
cent. This IS an annual average of
about . per cent, which is Just about
the rate OF Increase during the decade
previous to 1880, and little more than
the rate between iSGO and 1870, When
the war Of the rebellion naturally check
ed increase.
Mss N'EI DatC1GiCr, or LCUlSylile,
9 Few weel ago married young French
lawyer, whCm size supposed 10 have oniy
his profession Is : maintenance anu 10
On her welding day he
disclosed to lCr the awful fact that he
was the son ard heir or q vicOmte, witt!
a iJug and UnprOlOunceah.e name, and
belonging to distinguished French
family, He has since taken his bride
TO the Islands OF Mauritius. whe-e he Is
TO practice law inste ID OF living in Paris
and wasting his substance in its gay
society, Miss RItcheler had gone TO
Paris 10 perfect herself in AZ, and there
the two had met.
India has been thrown into .umllt
because Of the authorizations OF butter.
Ghee, or the native clarified butter,
enters into the composition of every
kind Of cooked food used by all clIsscs
Of natives. so that its adulieration with
beef or pork fat means loss Of caste tO
undus, and delilemeut TO Mohamme-
dams. So great has been the panic. that
the wealthier natives are importing
ghee from Persia and the poorer have
b en- abstainina from cooked food. The
Bengal eouncii has passed. bill 10 pre-
vent the adulteTation of food, and The
supreme government IS discussing tLe
of passing Il similar a..
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